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On a typical Sunday, 4,281 Episcopalians attend services in the world-famous Diocese of New Hampshire, according to official church reports.
This isn't a large number of worshippers in the pews of 47 parishes -- roughly the same number that would attend weekend Masses in two or three healthy Catholic parishes in a typical American city.

The last people we expect to indulge in gossip are priests. The faithful, after all, entrust the clergy with accounts of their faults, expecting only God to listen in.

Alfie Patten won't be celebrating Father's Day this year, after all.
The 13-year-old English boy was told by 15-year-old Chantelle Stedman that he was the father of her infant daughter, Maisie Roxanne. A recent DNA test has proved otherwise.

Near the end of Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons," the beautiful scientist Vittoria Vetra clashes with a Vatican official who insists that the day researchers prove how God acted in creation is "the day people stop needing faith."

Parents of difficult children have been known to invoke the Creator to get their kids to behave. "God sees you," they warn their offspring. "He can read your mind."
Soon, mind reading will no longer be God's exclusive prerogative. Instead, the privacy of our own thoughts and feelings will be invaded by mere mortals.

After days of angry headlines about the murder of an abortionist, one of America's most articulate defenders of life knew it was time for candor.

Merely saying the forest's name -- Bykivnya -- can cause strong emotions for millions of Ukrainians.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was among the most examined men of the 20th century even before he became a war hero, congressman, senator and president of the United States. It began in the late 1930s just a year after he entered Harvard as an undergraduate.

It was hard to ignore the papal bull condemning the slave trade, which was read to American Catholic leaders gathered in Baltimore in 1839.

It's not enough to quote the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," to end the argument about capital punishment. After all, we swat flies, hire exterminators and dine daily on the flesh of God's creatures without compunction. As a nation, we abort one-third of all pregnancies and take the lives of our enemies in war.